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Display Thumbnail Images In Terminal

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Senthilkumar
Jan 3, 2019

The lsix is a simple CLI utility designed to display thumbnail images in Terminal using Sixel graphics.

The lsix is a simple CLI utility designed to display thumbnail images in Terminal using Sixel graphics. For those wondering, Sixel, short for six pixels, is a type of bitmap graphics format. It uses ImageMagick, so almost all file formats supported by imagemagick will work fine.

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